It's a lot more agentic. I'm an Aider fan and use it the most because I prefer its simplicity, but it tends to require you be more "involved" in development and decision making than tools like Claude Code which can cycle around more on their own to figure things out and make decisions (which might not be the ones you want).
Hard to quantify, but as an opinionated developer I've found that AI systems with too much leash will often head off in directions I don't appreciate and have to undo. This is desirable in areas where I have less knowledge or want more velocity, though, but a tighter cycle with smaller steps enables me to maintain more of my taste through making more concrete decisions rather than merely pointing a direction.
